Before you build, validate! | Aydin Mirzaee, CEO Fellow.ai

Name: Before you build, validate! | Aydin Mirzaee, CEO Fellow.ai
Uploaded: 2025-10-09T18:46:25Z
Channel: Adrian Salamunovic
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube talk (speaker A, Aydin Mirzaee) advising founders to validate product ideas before building. The speaker describes an early…

9 Oct 2025

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Short excerpt from a YouTube talk (speaker A, Aydin Mirzaee) advising founders to validate product ideas before building. The speaker describes an early practice of creating screenshots and showing them to potential users (including friends at Shopify) to confirm willingness to try the product before investing engineering effort. The message emphasizes user commitment as early signal of product-market fit potential.

Don't build anything until people want to use it. I remember again, in the early days, all we did is we just created some screenshots and we showed it to people. We showed it to some friends at Shopify, and we said, hey, if we build this thing, will you agree to at least try it? And then until we got something that was compelling enough for them to say, yeah, if you build that, we'll try it. That was kind of like the moment of, okay, we may have something here. There's no guarantees, but at least we have someone who's willing to try this thing, and we would show it to people. So before we built anything, we would always do that. Always just build screenshots and things. So that's another lesson. I love that.